You will find a short description of each position and its responsibilities listed. Any English graduate student can nominate another English graduate student. Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged. You may also nominate someone for multiple positions. Nominations will be open until Sunday, January 20th, 11:59PM. After confirming nominations, another form will be distributed for the official election of the new EGO board.

The new EGO board will be announced Friday, February 1st, at EGO’s Election Party in Reitz Union, Room G325 (see attached flyer)!

The UF English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites abstract submissions to our First Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium, which is set to take place February 15-16, 2019. Its inaugural theme is “Developing an Academic Persona.” Please see the attached CfP for more details. We are extending the deadline for all abstract or proposal submissions to January 13, 2019.

EGO is further excited to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Professor Tim Gilmore. Gilmore is an alumni of the University of Florida, where he holds a Ph.D. in English. He currently teaches Literature and Writing at Florida State College at Jacksonville, where he was awarded a 2018 Distinguished Faculty Award. The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville named Gilmore the 2018 Literary Artist of the Year. Also in 2018, Gilmore served on the Jacksonville City Council’s Civil Rights History Task Force.

Gilmore writes about the haunted South. He is the author of 17 books, including a historical novel about the founder of Jacksonville, The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, illustrated by his colleague Shep Shepard, and creative nonfiction such as Goat Island Hermit: The State of Florida vs. Rollians Christopher. Dramaworks will produce Gilmore’s The Repossession of James Edward Pough: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows in April, 2019. Repossession will be McCulough’s 50th production with FSCJ.

Gilmore is also the founder of JaxbyJax, a literary arts festival built on the theme of “Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville.” He’s the writer and creator of www.jaxpsychogeo.com, a project that explores place and catalogues the Southern Gothic, telling the stories of nearly 500 locations in and around Jacksonville, Florida.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at ufl.ego@gmail.com if you have questions or concerns.

EGO’s Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium takes as its inaugural theme the topic of academic persona, meaning who you are in classrooms, in conferences, in publications, and in other academic venues. Therefore, we seek to promote dialogue across academic fields to help graduate students, recent graduates, and junior faculty navigate the academic milieu. These
conversations will acquaint students and colleagues with each others’ works and foster
professionalization discussions. Consequently, we aim to provide a collaborative space to
develop your research as well as myriad methods of dissemination in varying academic genres.

EGO invites paper and roundtable proposals on research of current graduate student of any fields, including, but not limited to: literary studies, film and media studies, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, narratology, cultural studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, critical theory, comics and visual rhetoric, and philosophy. We also welcome papers, roundtable, and workshop proposals that relate to any aspect of developing an academic persona in the varying fields. Faculty, alumni, doctoral candidates, as well as current graduate students are also welcome to submit abstracts.

Possible workshop and presentation topics include, but are certainly not limited to:

Current graduate research and conversations in the fields

Publishing in academic journals or creative writing venues

Applying for grants, fellowships, scholarships, or other funding

Implementing current research into the classroom via syllabi, assignments, discussion, or other pedagogical methods

Possibilities for and planning of classroom collaborations with peers or outside
institutions

Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words for a 15-minute presentation to
ufl.ego@gmail.com by January 6, 2019. Along with your submission, please include your
contact information and university affiliation (if applicable). For roundtables and workshop proposals, please submit abstracts along with the roundtable/workshop rationale and description. Lastly, please indicate any audio/visual requirements you may have. Authors of accepted presentations will be notified by January 20, 2019.

For questions concerning the symposium, please contact the English Graduate Organization at ufl.ego@gmail.com.

You are cordially invited to attend the EGO body meeting Wednesday, August 29. We will be discussing our plans for this school year and YOUR input is needed! These are the things that will make the department better for you–the only way you can have input on the way the department is run, what services and workshops are available, and what kind of work you’d like to see the department do is by making your voice heard at the EGO meetings!

Attached you can find the agenda so you can see all the topics we’ll be addressing

The orientation schedule from the English department is now posted! Check out the schedule for information and details and be sure to check out the rest of the website to brush up on any orientation information you missed!

Please excuse the disorder of the EGO website as we undergo a total redesign and reorganization. When the website is finished, hopefully this website will be a landing page for all UF English graduate students to find information about the department, the university, and Gainesville.